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What Is an Emotion?

Classic and Contemporary Readings

Second Edition

Edited by Robert C. Solomon

What Is an Emotion?

Classic and Contemporary Readings

Second Edition

Edited by Robert C. Solomon

Description

What is an Emotion?, 2/e, draws together important selections from classical and contemporary theories and debates about emotion. Utilizing sources from a variety of subject areas including philosophy, psychology, and biology, editor Robert Solomon provides an illuminating look at the "affective" side of psychology and philosophy from the perspective of the world's great thinkers. Part One of the book features five classic readings from Aristotle, the Stoics, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hume. Part Two offers classic and contemporary theories from the social sciences, presenting selections from such thinkers as Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud alongside recent work from Paul Ekman, Catherine Lutz, and others. Part Three presents some of the extensive work on emotion that developed in Europe over the past century. Part Four includes essays representing the discussion of emotions among British and American analytic philosophers. The volume is enhanced by a comprehensive introduction by the editor and a multidisciplinary bibliography. What is an Emotion? is appropriate for any course in which the nature of emotion plays a major role, including philosophy of emotion, philosophy of mind, history of psychology, emotion and motivation, moral psychology, and history and psychology of consciousness courses. The second edition provides much more material on emotions in the sciences and more from recent philosophical theories, encompassing recent shifts in theorizing on three fronts: the wealth of new information on the central nervous system and the brain; new developments in cross-cultural research and anthropology; and the recent emphasis on "cognition" in emotion, both in philosophy and the social sciences. New selections include work by Antonio Damasio, Ronald De Sousa, Paul Ekman, Nico Frijda, Patricia Greenspan, Paul Griffiths, Richard Lazarus, Catherine Lutz, Martha Nussbaum, and Michael Stocker.

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What Is an Emotion?

Classic and Contemporary Readings

Second Edition

Edited by Robert C. Solomon

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction: "What Is an Emotion?". I. THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Aristotle From RhetoricFrom On the SoulFrom Nicomachean EthicsThe Stoics From Early StoicsFrom Seneca, De IraFrom Galen, On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and PlatoRené Descartes From The Passions of the SoulBenedict Spinoza From EthicsDavid Hume From A Treatise of Human NatureII. THE MEETING OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY Charles Robert Darwin From The Expression of Emotion in Man and AnimalsWilliam James From What Is an Emotion?Walter B. Cannon From Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and RageJohn Dewey From The Theory of EmotionSigmund Freud From The UnconsciousAnxiety (From General Lectures on Psychoanalysis)Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer From Cognitive, Social, and Physiological Determinants of Emotional StatePaul Ekman From Biological and Cultural Contributions to Body and Facial Movement in the Expression of EmotionsRichard Lazarus Appraisal: The Minimal Cognitive Prerequisites of EmotionNico Frijda Emotions are Functional, Most of the TimeCatherine Lutz From Unnatural EmotionsAntonio Damasio From The Feeling of What HappensIII. THE CONTINENTAL TRADITION Franz Brentano From On the Origin of Our Knowledge of Right and WrongMax Scheler From Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of ValuesMartinHeidegger Charles Guignon, Moods in Heidegger's Being and TimeJean-Paul Sartre From The Emotions: A Sketch of a TheoryIV. CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS AND EMOTION Gilbert Ryle From The Concept of MindErrol Bedford From EmotionsAnthony Kenny From Action, Emotion and WillRobert C. Solomon From Emotions and ChoiceCheshire Calhoun Cognitive Emotions?Ronald De Sousa From The Rationality of EmotionMichael Stocker The Irreducibility of AffectivityPatricia Greenspan Reasons to FeelMartha Nussbaum Emotions as Judgements of Value and ImportancePaul Griffiths From What Emotions Really AreBibliography